BEd Bachelor of Education Literacy and Language Arts Instruction

Question 1

Which reading component refers to a student's ability to read text accurately, quickly, and with appropriate expression?

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Reading fluency

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Phonemic awareness

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Vocabulary

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Reading comprehension

Question 2

The 'Simple View of Reading' model proposes that reading comprehension is the product of:

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Decoding and linguistic comprehension

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Vocabulary knowledge and background knowledge

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Phonics instruction and sight word memory

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Oral language ability and print motivation

Question 3

Phonemic awareness differs from phonics instruction in that phonemic awareness:

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Is exclusively an oral and auditory skill with no print component

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Involves connecting sounds to written letters

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Focuses on reading multisyllabic words

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Requires knowledge of spelling rules

Question 4

A teacher who teaches students to use context clues, word parts (roots, prefixes, suffixes), and reference materials is focusing on which reading component?

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Vocabulary development

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Phonological awareness

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Text structure analysis

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Reading fluency

Question 5

The National Reading Panel (2000) identified five essential components of reading instruction. Which of the following is NOT one of them?

Accepted Answer

Spelling

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Phonemic awareness

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Phonics

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Vocabulary

Question 6

Structured Literacy instruction is grounded in which approach to teaching reading?

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Science of reading and explicit, systematic phonics

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Whole language

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Balanced literacy

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Guided reading leveled texts